Gillian Anderson & Rebecca Hall To Star As Illicit Lover & Wife On A Collision Course In Thriller ‘The Portrait’; Rocket Science & WME Launch For AFM — SkimNews
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- The Portrait has Gillian Anderson and Rebecca Hall attached, with Sara Colangelo writing and directing the psychological thriller based on Ilaria Bernardini’s novel.
- Gillian Anderson plays Valeria, an acclaimed writer whose secret lover Martín becomes inaccessible through illness, prompting her to commission a portrait and infiltrate his family’s London townhouse.
- Rebecca Hall plays Isla, Martín’s artist wife, who is drawn into a “pas de deux” with Valeria as deception and competing loyalties drive their collision.
- Pie Films produces through Talia Kleinhendler and Osnat Handelsman Keren alongside The Apartment’s Francesca Cualbu.
- WME will represent domestic rights at next week’s AFM, while Rocket Science handles international sales.
- The Portrait is slated to begin production in Q1 2027 and shoot in the UK.
- Sara Colangelo says the film continues her interest in moral ambiguity and female transgression, while the producers describe it as a stylish Hitchcockian thriller.
Why it matters: WME and Rocket Science enter next week’s AFM with a package that already has Gillian Anderson, Rebecca Hall, writer-director Sara Colangelo and a Q1 2027 UK production timetable. The immediate change is commercial availability: WME is presenting domestic rights and Rocket Science international rights, giving buyers a project with named leads before filming begins.
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